It appears that the 2006.1 install media (all of them) are broken on < i686 x86 CPUs
Its a known bug and is being worked. The 2006.1 stage tarballs may be affected too.

The workaround is to revert to the 2006.0 install CDs and stages and go through the update pain.
Beware - there is a suspision (not yet confirmed) that the bug is linked to the combination of mtune=i686 and gcc-4.1.1, used in the 2006.1 release media. Therefore you may want to hang off the gcc-4.1.1 update just now, if you go down this path.

I have built a base install and a few odds and ends with gcc-4.1.1 and march=k6-2. That seemed to work.

The alternative is to wait for a fix.

I'll post more when I know more - watch this thread or this bug_________________Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

Folks, the 2006.1 x86 installer (both CD and DVD) will not boot on my old Pentium 233MHz box w/128MB of memory. It gets to the "booting (initramfs)..." line and then sponanteously reboots. This did not happen with the previous 2006.0 installer.

Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas? I tried lots of options including noapic etc) with no luck.

It seems the livecd-amd64-installer.iso is alive.
The ISOLINUX part was ok because the boot: prompt appeard and it accepted input.
With simply hitting return, or gentoo-nofb command, it loads the initramfs
and (it seems) the system reboots upon completion.
I tried on three Multi CPU Opteron machines, and the consequence was the same.

yuck, pentium mmx with gentoo? Emerge -uav world would take like a week

I'm a power user myself, but you guys are hardcore. I'm in the process of a G3 300 mhz Gossamer installation, so I suppose it's just as bad. Still, I cringe at the thought of a P MMX. I suppose the smart thing to do would be to use a cross compiler, although I haven't had the time to mess with it and figure it out yet.

The problem was that the x86 stage2/stage3 was created with CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu", which caused glibc to build some i686-specific code into itself. This will be fixed for good with 2007.0, where the x86 stage2/stage3 will be built with CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" and the i686 stage2/stage3 will be built with CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu". Also, we don't do any testing on old machines for several reasons. One is access. Another is time. Last, there's developer interest. We simply don't have the time and energy to devote to properly testing on ancient hardware for every release. We spend most of our time working with newer hardware simply because that is where the demand is for new features._________________Ex-Gentoo Developer
Catalyst/Genkernel Development Lead
http://wolf31o2.org

I boot up the installcd for x86 choose the gentoo kernel and it starts loading
it gets me into this console where it says on every line i write with red LiveCD and with blue root#
i do no tknow what do do from here to install it because i did not download the livecd but it still says livecd!

What do i do wrong please tell me!
My machine is new it is a pentium mobile 1,4 ghz 64 video card and 512 ram!
I need urgent help please_________________MESS WITH THE BEST...DIE LIKE THE REST

when i install everything when i restart it doesnt do anything doesnt load up nothing and it also says when the live cd that theres a bios bug at something something and that it fails to allocate mem resource what is wrong?

It seems the livecd-amd64-installer.iso is alive.
The ISOLINUX part was ok because the boot: prompt appeard and it accepted input.
With simply hitting return, or gentoo-nofb command, it loads the initramfs
and (it seems) the system reboots upon completion.
I tried on three Multi CPU Opteron machines, and the consequence was the same.

I thought I'd let you know that I have an old installation of gentoo on my 486 Clevo notebook
with 16MB RAM, true it's not fast but seems to do it's job, will try to update soon with my new
knowledge of optimization tips I have learned so far on my pentium 133 mmx.

Installation was possible via knoppix v3.3 and chrooting to manual install using gentoo-handbook.

Just to let you know it does work, who cares I don't hava a working X yet.

See also my current Project CSSPC on my current homepage in german language:

nice too see that your still using older hardware. i remeber working on a 486 dx33 with slax slacware which i had got in floppy's from the front of a PC world magazine lol. Great thing about Gentoo is the amazing simplicity to use distcc which is where you can use a faster machine to compile the code and send back the binary, excellent technology.

good stuff people, oh yea i am sure if you had 10x 200mmx pentium pros all connected using distcc it would not take to long to compile. multi processors over 10/100 Ethernet hehe its all good fun _________________When i look In-between white and black i see a rainbow of colours